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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: please coin a term for a lower order bug
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:43:05 +0000 (UTC)
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Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote:
> On 1/9/2012 5:02 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
>> What would you call a flaw in a program that had no effect on the
>> results, but needlessly made the program slower or confusing?

>     Call them "bugs."  Sub-classification as "venial bugs" and
> "mortal bugs" just reveals the classifier's lack of imagination.

In health-care systems the difference might be more significant.

-- glen